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> That’s self-aggrandizing white male behavior!

I think you might be victimizing yourself a bit much there

If you haven't made games and can't show them on the spot you won't get hired in the gaming industry depending on role

Games industry is a special case, more adjacent to the design industry.

I worked at a few Fortune 500 companies and interviewed a lot of candidates for both simple CRUD and harder systems programming work. Side projects, GitHub stuff, or even an independent bootstrapped business almost NEVER helped the candidate and more often seemed to hurt.

The only thing that would definitely help was getting your patches into major, major projects like the Linux kernel, PostgreSQL, OpenJDK, etc.

I showed them my battle arena game in XNA at Amazon and it seemed to be a key thing that swayed the hiring manager

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